Jenseits Der Quotes & Sayings

I said, mimicking the Disney World commercials. — Katherine Applegate

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being ... The open mind is the empty mind. — Rose Macaulay

He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough. — J.D. Robb

Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are ... condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Because if we happened, just happened to discover, or even suspect, that our spontaneity was part of their order, we'd know that we were lost. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; his two-fold security. — Tom Stoppard

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions. — Susanna Wesley

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. — Jeff Bezos

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall. — Daniel Woodrell

If you judge people, you don't have time to love them. — Mother Teresa

I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times! — Oliver Sykes

My moral standing is lying down. — Trent Reznor

The One Forbidden Thing. Remember Bluebeard, who says to his wife, "Don't open that closet"? And then one always disobeys. In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience. — Joseph Campbell

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it. — Carl Barat

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne. — Jerome K. Jerome

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes. — James Hansen